If you ask your doctor for a brand-name drug, there's a good chance he or she will comply, even if there's a cheaper, equally effective generic drug available. That's especially true if your doctor is older, works in a small practice, or, ...
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If you ask your doctor for a brand-name drug, there's a good chance he or she will comply, even if there's a cheaper, equally effective generic drug available. That's especially true if your doctor is older, works in a small practice, or, ...
Tags: JAMA Internal Medicine, drug, healthcare
Santaris Pharma and miRagen Therapeutics have extended their research deal to discover and develop LNA-drugs against disease causing microRNAs. The agreement allows miRagen to gain a non-exclusive license to the miRNA therapeutics field ...
A change in the shape or color of a drug can make you less likely to take it, according to a new study. It found that people who regularly took generic antiseizure drugs but who were given pills with differing appearances at each refill ...
Tags: drug, medication, generic antiseizure drugs, Internal Medicine
If you take a sleeping medication that contains zolpidem (Ambien, Ambien CR, Edluar, Zolpimist, or generic), you could still have levels in your body the next morning that are high enough to impair driving, even if you feel wide awake. ...
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The ravages of Hurricane Sandy may have ruined your medications. Follow this advice from the Food and Drug Administration to make sure the drugs you take are safe: Refrigeration needed. Drugs that require refrigeration should be ...
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If you think leaving the hospital means you're home for good, think again. About twenty percent of heart attack and pneumonia patients, and a quarter of heart failure patients, find themselves back in the hospital within 30 days, according ...
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Activision Publishing, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Activision Blizzard, Inc., today announced that for the fourth consecutive year, the Call of Duty® franchise has delivered the biggest entertainment launch of the year. The ...
Q. I am 68 and have only Medicare Part A. My sole source of income is $1,062 a month from Social Security. I'm in good health but concerned about future medical needs. Are there any plans for lower-income people? A.Yes, and it's a shame ...
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Elsevier has purchased a France based company Aureus Sciences, which provides databases and information tools, for an undisclosed sum. Aureus is involved in gathering high quality quantitative biological activity data of major therapeutic ...
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Check your prescription container to see if a manufacturer is listed on the label. If your bottle says "Ranbaxy," call or take it back to the pharmacy where you filled the prescription to find out if it's been recalled. The pharmaceutical ...
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A: Until other much-needed changes occur, you should only use a medication from a compounding pharmacy if no other FDA-approved product is available, say our medical advisers. Compounding pharmacies create individual, customized drugs. They ...
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Galapagos has reached a milestone in its immuno-inflammation alliance with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) by delivering a fifth pre-clinical drug candidate. Galapagos CEO Onno van de Stolpe said the company has identified five candidate drugs of ...
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Exploration of the Chinese people on Chinese Herbal medicine has gone through thousands of years of history. According to legend, ShenNong tasted a hundred herbs, and first explained the Medicine, he was well known as “Emperor of the ...
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Tranzyme Pharma has completed the chemistry-based drug discovery partnership and transferred the resulting compounds to Bristol-Myers Squibb to advance the development. The strategic collaboration leveraged Macrocyclic Template Chemistry, ...
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